How Could We Explain It to Thomas Jefferson?
Men [...] like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were united in their strong support for the right of the individual to live free from unwarranted government coercion.

UAW wrote a list of principles. While the list included the “right to join a join;” it failed to mention the right to choose not to join a union— a right that 80% of Americans and union members agree workers should have. Fortunately for workers at the BMW plant pictured above and at many other foreign automakers’ U.S. factories, they are located in Right to Work states like South Carolina where employees cannot be forced to pay union dues or fees as a condition of getting or keeping a job.
Men [...] like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were united in their strong support for the right of the individual to live free from unwarranted government coercion.
Big Labor Nevada politician Aaron Ford is making no bones about the fact that “getting rid of” Right to Work, as he put it in a podcast interview, will be high on his 2027 agenda.
The ILA hierarchy’s clear motive in suing two carriers that had docked at Leatherman, and in its threat to sue others if they did the same, was to bully the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), with whom the union had no contract, into selling out the freedom of union-free port employees who then operated heavy equipment.